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Important Dates

1- 5 Sept - MiddlesSwimming1 Sept - R1 at Toitu2 Sept - R2A at Toitu4 Sept - R4 at Toitu5 Sept - R2 at Toitu5 Sept - Otago Cross

Country6-7 Sept - Ski Trip7 Sept - Sign Writingfor Fair8-12 Sept - MiddlesSwimming12 Sept - Room 5Assembly16 Sept - Polyfest15-19 Sept - Fairpreparation19 Sept - NextNewsletter20 Sept - SCHOOLFAIR!

KAIKORAI PRIMARY

SCHOOLN e w s l e t t e r

A very special welcome to Luke Milburn, Leo Milburn, KeivYoungman, Max Hudson, Maddox Adamson and their familie s to

Kaikorai Primary School!

PRINCIPALS MESSAGE

Dear Parents,

One of the great things about my job is seeingchildrens faces when they achieve great things.

This has happened a lot over the last three weeks as thewinter sports draw to a close along with many othercompetitions. The children competing in these events have

done the whole community proud not just with their successbut by displaying the Kaikorai values at all times. A specialcongratulations to the OMathalon team who won thecompetition, the senior netball team who went through theseason undefeated and also won the regional competition.The many runners who have trained so hard at school andhave now qualified to compete at the Otago Cross Countryand to the children who played in the Ukulele Jam with greatskill and enjoyment.Thank you to all of theparents who help to supporttheir children achieve theirgoals and a special thank youto all of the coaches, managersand teachers!Kind RegardsSimon Clarke

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SCHOOL NEWS

SYNDICATE NEWS

Middle News-

This year the Middles have been writing to pen pals from Waikari and Outram Schools. We have enjoyedexchanging letters, and this week Rooms 3 and 5 travelled to Outram to meet our pen pals. Many children weresurprised at how much they had in common, we enjoyed a couple of technology challenges, games, and a sharedlunch with our new friends. We also spent some time learning about the significant things the student leaders doand we are excitedly planning our inquiry around doing something significant in our own school.

We will be swimming for the next two weeks with Jill Clarke from Monday to Thursday. Children will beresponsible for remembering to bring their togs and their towels each day. Parents are welcome to come andwatch quietly.

Times in the poolRoom 3: 1.00Room 5: 1.30Room 6: 2.00

Junior News

We are all consumed by our Planet Earth and Beyond SPACEinquiry as we zoom around the planets

and explore all there is to know about space. The total enthusiasm of everyone is wonderful to see as we findout answers to our wonderings and find out how the solar system affects the world we live it. I am sure thisthirst for knowledge will have shown itself at home as the children share what they are learning. Pop in and seewhat we have all been doing.PMPwe have 2 weeks more of PMP and we seem to be struggling some days to have enough support. Pleasepop along and help your childs class if you are free.Each class is busy making something for the school fairfor you lucky parents/ grandparents to buy. Thank

you in advance for your support.It is great to see our value of INDEPENDENCE working well as children become responsible for their ownbelongings and unpacking and packing their own bags. Of course this independence transfers across intobecoming independent learners within the classroom and this is exciting to see.

Happy learning, we do appreciate all the support you give your child every day.

Senior News

The senior classes have had a lot of enjoyment from their learning activities that are based in World War 1. They have

continued to explore their thinking through reading and writing letters, journal entries, reports and descriptions. A rangeof resources including music, images and the picture books and novels we have sourced through our school library andThe National Library Service have been a great help.

We have started our syndicate swaps with each teacher taking an area of The Arts to further help the learning. The

teachers are enjoying working with different children in the areas of: Drama (Tony Reid), Dance (Linda Martin), VisualArt (Shane Melrose) and Music (Jill Kumar). The children are also looking forward to these opportunities to work with

different teachers. The lessons are all focused on World War 1.

On Monday we went to the Kings High School Arts Centre to see a drama created by CapitalE. It was highly engaging

and very cleverly acted. While it was full of facts, its strongest aspect was that it showed the different viewpoints that

groups of people held during World War 1. It was a powerful production.

Next week we are looking forward to going to Toitu to work with their Education Officer Sara Sinclair. There is a huge

display there and a new education programme has been developed.

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SCHOOL NEWS

School SportsKaikorai is always well represented in a variety of academic and cultural activities and our sportsprogramme is no exception.Miniball, hockey and netball have concluded for another winter. We are very proud of all our teams.

Some have been very successful while others less so. Some children are highly skilled while others not so.However it is the attitude, commitment and joy that the children get from playing a team game thatimpresses and thrills us. To that end Kaikorai Kids are very successful and continue to demonstrate theKAIK values.This, of course cannot happen without a huge commitment from the parents. We wish to sincerely thankthe following coaches and managers.Hockey:Coach, Cam Romeril and Nikola Ballard -Kaikorai Red. Coach, Amanda Dyer and Sara de laHarpe Kaikorai Blue.Netball:Coach,Teena Joyce Kaikorai Red. Coach, Janine Southby - Kaikorai Blue. Vanessa HornalA number of St Hildas students have also coached and managed Kaikorai teams. Special thanks to AnnaDixon, Leonie Palmer, Georgia Clarke, Charlotte Cotter, Meeghan Campbell, Annalyse Baine and

Jessica Grey for your valued contribution to our teams. You have been great coaches and the childrenvalued your input.Miniball: Thanks to coach Craig Baron Kaikorai Pacers.Special thanks too, to Angela Ruske for her wonderful coaching of the year 6 girls minball team-Kaikorai Sparks. Angela no longer has children at our school but she has continued enriching andmentoring our skilled players. They were a very lucky team.

Hills Cross CountryAround sixty Kaikorai Children took part in the Hills Cross Country at Bishops court this week.In cool and boggy conditions, again our runners rose to the occasion. It is an experience the childrendont forget!Well done to everyone and congratulations to our medal winners.

Jesika Sebelin, Becky de la Harpe, Duncan Bell, Gemma Rowcroft, Emily Joyce, Molly Ballard and HollyRowcroft.

The Kaikorai Blue Netball team won the Otago Primary Schools netball tournament this week.Congratulations team.

SPORT AGE EMAIL WEB LINKCLOSING

DATE

Futsal Year 1 - 6 sgilbert@kaikorai.school.nz bit.ly/1peZpco September 12

Flipperball Year 3 - 6 Pfisher@kaikorai.school.nz bit.ly/1taGCAO September 12

Touch Year 3 - 6 kpaehua@kaikorai.school.nz bit.ly/YWLX22 September 12

Rippa Year 4 - 6 treid@kaikorai.school.nz bit.ly/1jZDSil September 12

T Ball year 1 - 4 smelrose@kaikorai.school.nz bit.ly/1vNP72R September 12

Summer SportsYour child may have come home witha notice about playinga sport this summer season. If youhave filled this out and returned it that is all you need to do. If however you havent seen a notice

and you would like your child to play a sport this summer pleaseclick on the web link.

mailto:smelrose@kaikorai.school.nzmailto:smelrose@kaikorai.school.nzmailto:treid@kaikorai.school.nzmailto:kpaehua@kaikorai.school.nzhttp://bit.ly/YWLX22mailto:cdunn@kaikorai.school.nzhttp://bit.ly/1taGCAOmailto:sgilbert@kaikorai.school.nzmailto:smelrose@kaikorai.school.nzmailto:treid@kaikorai.school.nzmailto:kpaehua@kaikorai.school.nzhttp://bit.ly/YWLX22http://bit.ly/1vNP72Rhttp://bit.ly/1vNP72Rmailto:smelrose@kaikorai.school.nzmailto:smelrose@kaikorai.school.nzhttp://bit.ly/1jZDSilhttp://bit.ly/1jZDSilmailto:treid@kaikorai.school.nzmailto:treid@kaikorai.school.nzhttp://bit.ly/YWLX22http://bit.ly/YWLX22mailto:kpaehua@kaikorai.school.nzmailto:kpaehua@kaikorai.school.nzhttp://bit.ly/1taGCAOhttp://bit.ly/1taGCAOmailto:cdunn@kaikorai.school.nzmailto:cdunn@kaikorai.school.nzhttp://bit.ly/1peZpcohttp://bit.ly/1peZpcomailto:sgilbert@kaikorai.school.nzmailto:sgilbert@kaikorai.school.nz

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SCHOOL NEWS

Parent GroupSCHOOL DISCO

The School Disco held on 15 August was very successful and popular. The kids seemed to have agreat time and $1,130 was raised. A huge thank you to all the parents and teachers who helped onthe night.SCHOOL FAIR - SATURDAY 20 SEPTEMBER

Only 3 weeks now until the School Fair!

Helpers:If you havent signed up yet to help at the Fair and youre free on Saturday 20

September, then please contact Tor as soon as you can as we still need more helpers. Its going to behard to run all of the stalls we have planned if we dont get some more helpers.

Raffle Cards:On Monday 1 September a Raffle Card will be sent home to all families. There are

10 draws with lots of fantastic prizes to be won. Each draw is worth over $100. Raffle tickets cost$2 each and there are 15 tickets on a card. Additional cards are available if you can sell morethan one card that would be much appreciated.

Fair Flyers:Some time during the next week your child will bring home two Fair Flyers that

theyve coloured in at school. Please find somewhere to put these e.g. car windows or your workplace.

Baking:A notice will come home soon about Baking for the Fair.

The Baking Stall is always a very popular one and so well need lotsof families to contribute homemade baking and lollies for lollymixtures.If you have any questions about the School Fair or would like to

volunteer to help, then please contact Tor Devereux (453-1108,027-635-1512, devereux@ihug.co.nz).

Health ProgrammesCommunityConsultation

Many thanks to those whofilled out the recentHealth ProgrammesCommunity Consultation.It was pleasing to see allrespondents happy with

the programmes that weare providing and thankyou for your suggestions.

Summer SportsLast week Kaikorai Primary participated in the OMathalonCompetition which was run at The Edgar Arena. There were 27teams from Year 5 and 34 teams from Year 6.It is a competition designed to provide challenge for each schools

strong mathematicians; the problems set were difficult and the pacewas fast. There is a lot of running in this competition too. Eachteam had to answer as many questions as they possibly could in ahalf hour time slot.Our teams performed very well on the points table, and they can be

very proud of their efforts.Well done!:Year 5 Liam Black, Elisey Abdula,Hetty Waters and Owen SandersonYear 6 Tobias Devereux, Alex Reid,

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